2+ hour, 7+ min ago  (307+ words) PESHAWAR: The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) on Saturday warned of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) and flash flooding in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, amid untimely rains and rising temperatures in the country. Pakistan, one of the countries most…...

21+ hour, 5+ min ago  (433+ words) BAGHDAD: Uruk, the world's first metropolis and the birthplace of written language, was nourished by the Euphrates River, "as was Babylon, ancient Mesopotamia's grandest city. The fertile plain between the Euphrates and its companion waterway, the Tigris River, was one…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (327+ words) The European Commission last week presented a package of measures focused on achieving technological sovereignty. There are two goals to this plan: first, to make Europe a world-leading player in artificial intelligence; second, to be less reliant on American and…...

1+ day, 22+ min ago  (443+ words) MANILA: Philippine officials said Friday that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south and left 46 people dead with 38 others missing. The 7. 8 magnitude offshore quake, which struck…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (361+ words) RIYADH: The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has launched its first office dedicated to cybersecurity, establishing a new global hub in Riyadh to support efforts to strengthen cyber resilience through training, research, policy development and knowledge exchange....

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (283+ words) RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: Europe's technology chief warned Thursday about the risks of relying too heavily on US tech companies in sensitive areas such as cybersecurity and defense. EU tech sovereignty chief Henna Virkkunen was speaking in Brazil at Web…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (857+ words) RIYADH: At the LEAP25 conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture unveiled a major initiative aimed at transforming animal healthcare through artificial intelligence. The ministry launched the Artificial Intelligence Animal Health Platform, a system designed to monitor…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (255+ words) Saudi Arabia and the GCC are building ambitious AI infrastructure. Gigawatt-scale data centers, sovereign cloud platforms and national AI strategies are reshaping the region's economic identity." Yet the data powering this ambition " every transaction, model query and connected service " still…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (143+ words) JEDDAH: Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have developed a coating that allows solar panels to clean themselves while simultaneously capturing moisture from the air. Dust accumulation is one of the most significant challenges facing solar energy…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (429+ words) JAKARTA: Landslides driven by climate change in Sumatra, Indonesia last year alone wiped out 7 percent of the Tapanuli orangutan population, new research shows, as scientists warn of an increased risk of extinction for one of the world's rarest great apes....